The airlines call it "ancillary revenue". You might call it something different. It's the $23 billion (BILLION) dollars the airlines made last year on all those hidden extra charges when you fly; preferred seats, checked bags, pillows, blankets, air that you breathe on the plane....what's next? Not that I'm a big stick-to-the-budget gal (much to my husband's chagrin) but I don't like to be surprised when something already expensive ends up costing even more than I thought. I found a couple of good tools today on Tripadvisor.com. One is their newly enhanced "fees estimator" feature which adds up every little fee the airline is charging you and gives you the bottom line before you go. The other is Seat Guru.com which provides not only a detailed seat map of each individual aircraft on every airline, but will tell you which seats have reduced leg room, limited recline, even misaligned windows. Like the hotel reviews, these are written by actual passengers so not every flight is going to have complete information unless someone provides it.
Just another way to know before you go, because travel surprises should be fun not frustrating.
1 comments:
Ouch! I hate how airlines can charge what they want. Thanks for the recommended sites.
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